Internationalized Domain Names

Register your domain in multiple languages

101order.com offers
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) for the five major generic top
level domain extensions, and for a variety of international domain
extensions. Below is a list of currently-supported IDN extensions
and languages - simply choose which language and extension you'd
like to register a domain for, use the provided character keyboard
to fill in the desired domain name, and click search to see if it is
available. As always, our registration process is quick and easy,
and you can check back often to see if there are new languages
and/or extensions available.

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are domain names
represented by local language characters. Such domain names could
contain letters or characters from non-ASCII scripts (for example,
Arabic or Chinese). Many efforts are ongoing in the Internet
community to make domain names available in character sets other
than ASCII.

These "internationalized domain name" (IDN) efforts
were the subject of a 25 September 2000 resolution by the ICANN
Board of Directors, which recognized "that it is important that
the Internet evolve to be more accessible to those who do not use
the ASCII character set," and also stressed that "the
internationalization of the Internet's domain name system must be
accomplished through standards that are open, non-proprietary, and
fully compatible with the Internet's existing end-to-end model and
that preserve globally unique naming in a universally resolvable
public name space."

Why is there a need for new gTLDs?
The wider Internet community that takes part in the ICANN policy
development process has advocated for new gTLDs. The expansion will
allow for more innovation, choice and change to the Internet’s
addressing system, now constrained by only 21 generic top-level
domain names. In a world with 1.5 billion Internet users—and
growing—diversity, choice and competition are key to the
continued success and reach of the global network.

IDN stands for Internationalized Domain Name. IDNs are domain
names represented by local language characters. Such domain names
could contain characters with diacritical marks as required by many
European languages, or characters from non-Latin scripts (for
example, Arabic or Chinese). IDNs make the domain name label as it
is displayed and viewed by the end user different from that
transmitted in the DNS. To avoid confusion the following terminology
is used: The A-label is what is transmitted in the DNS protocol and
this is the ASCII-compatible (ACE) form of an IDNA string; for
example "xn--11b5bs1di". The U-label is what should be
displayed to the user and is the representation of the
Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) in Unicode; Lastly, the
LDH-label strictly refers to an all-ASCII label that obeys the
"hostname" (LDH) conventions and that is not an IDN.